[tcdb-devel] Sending mail from the web server

[Jason C. <jas...@gm...>]

Here's what sourceforge says:

http://sourceforge.net/docs/E07#email

The ability to send email from the project web servers has been stopped to
curb past abuse that has occurred from the project web servers. However, we
do realize that this is a valued and required feature for many projects
hosted on SourceForge.net, so we have provided a method for a project to
accomplish this task. At a high level, it would look like this:

   1. The module of the project web service that requires the ability to
   send out mail would now be modified to queue the message to the project
   database.
   2. A cron job <http://sourceforge.net/docs/E07#cron> would be
   configured to pull out and send the emails from the project shell server=
.

The project shell servers can be used to send email. This should help keep
holes in project web sites from being abused by outside sources to send
spam. The 'mail' command on the shell server can be used to send out mail,
amongst other possible methods. We recommend that each project re-evaluate
their need to send email first, before configuring this. We do not provide
specific assistance in making this process work for projects, they are
responsible for implementation level details at this point.

Each user is limited to sending only 1000 emails per day from the shell
server. This limit should allow for verification of account creation on
forums, and other such items, but not full-blown email integrated forums, i=
n
most cases. The mailing list service should take care of this need.